Novel Quotes
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Mostly the subject of the photograph, which can be anyone really, coming down the street - someone that has no idea. Heroism in photography, just like in a novel, is for everyone.
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All my writing-life people kept telling me that I should stop writing short stories and start writing novels: my agent, my Israeli publisher, my foreign ones, my bank manager - they all felt and keep feeling that I'm doing something wrong here.
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I feel quite at home writing short stories but nervous and anxious when writing novels, as if the bad time of consecutive failures might arise again.
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In the long term, you have to believe that movies and TV shows will be like the opera and the novel, pretty nichey businesses.
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There are often references to childhood, but they're rarely the focus of the [my] novels.
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I don't think the 'what' distinguishes a good novel from a bad one but rather the 'how.'
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Writing a story is kind of like surfing, as opposed to the novel, where you use a GPS to get somewhere. With surfing, you kind of jump.
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We could live like counts. ... If all that money is out there, I might as well hack a little on the side and put the novel off.
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When you work on a graphic novel or a film with people you've been together through a lot and you've exposed your secrets and weaker sides to each other.
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The novel's not organized like a screenplay. If you shot the novel, you'd have a twelve-hour movie.
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The idea of the writer who writes nineteen novels, with various ups and downs and levels of experimentation, isn't around so much now. There's a focus, I think, on fewer books, with more pressure on each book to succeed. With that there comes, I think, a certain pressure towards shapeliness in fiction. Towards neatness. And I think writers feel that, and it can effect how they write.
